Designs By Autumn

For my re-designed book cover, I chose George Orwell’s 1984 .  Below is a picture of the book cover I have at home and below that book cover are the ideas I found online as well as my sketch of two separate ideas as a re-design.  I was thinking of doing either the electric chair with the camera as one idea or the town square picture of the large screens with big brother as a second idea.  I really like the original with the eyeball that symbolizes that big brother is always watching, but it is so simple and I thought perhaps I could take it a little further.  Conveying your point is so important in marketing.  When I think about the story or the message that George Orwell was telling, I think more about gas-lighting and torture than just merely being watched.  In my opinion, it would be effective to add some of these elements to the cover of the book in order to market a little more clearly what the book is really about because it is so much more than havi...

I call this poster "SHE" and I created it for the Me Too movement.  Essentially, it is a compilation of the blame game of excuses and lies used by men who commit rapes or other sexual assaults or harassment.  For this project, I focused only on women as victims but, of course, men and trans-people are regularly victims too.  I used a dark background with lighter text to grab attention and I chose the font "Ink Free" because I really liked the sans serif text style of looking like handwriting (as if these comments were written down by the men who were saying them).  Photoshop has a great 3D tool, which I used to tweak the text into a more interesting poster rather than just making a list of grievances.  I played with using multiple types of font, but I found that sticking with the same font was most effective in reaching my goal, however, I did change the point size throughout. In creating this poster, I hope to bring awareness to the issue of sexual assault...

I couldn’t narrow it down to just one concept after I starting working on the poster project.   So here are three sketches of three different ideas. One is for gun control, a child his pointing a gun at another child who is cowering in a self-protection stance and I’m thinking a building that looks like a school should be in the background.   The text will say, “how many more of our children must die?” The other two sketches are ideas I had about how women are sexualized and objectified by men.   One will be only text in bold, sans serif, all caps, and each line will read as something a rapist would say about his victim as an excuse for why he hurt her.   Each line will have a different color and I’m thinking that one of the lines should be a little bigger than the rest either in the middle or at the bottom and it should probably be the line that says, “#METOO,” or “SHE ASKED FOR IT.”   And the second sketch shows male body parts with text that says, “...

There is currently a very serious problem where children of asylum seekers are being separated from their parents and are kept in detention centers across the country without documentation of which child belongs to which adult.   Children are kept in large cages, some without shelter, and they are terrified and traumatized and many of these families have no way of finding each other to reconnect once the nightmare ends.   Frida Kahlo suffered a tragic bus accident that crippled her and kept her in chronic pain for the rest of her life, and as a result, she was never able to have her own children.   This famous painting, self-portrait, shows Frida’s pain, sadness and extreme torture with confinement in her own damaged body and heartbreak of loss of time and the ability to have children.   I integrated images to represent the pain and loss of family of asylum seekers caused by our government and horrible border control policies.   The monkeys in a cage r...

For my three political concepts I chose; rape culture, immigration and LGBTQ rights.  1. Frida Kahlo's self-portrait painting represents her injury from a bus accident and the pain and limitations it posed upon her for the rest of her life, as she was literally bound and experienced excruciating chronic pain.  She wore medical corsets to hold her spine in place.  An image like this can represent so many different things, but for me I felt it was a great representation of our current immigration crisis where families are being separated and held captive by our government.  The torture of losing your child, the binding of the "internment" camp, the pain of seeking something greater and becoming a prisoner instead.  I would like to implement cages into the background, probably with animals inside rather than people because of the remarks Trump has made about illegal aliens being animals in order to dehumanize them.  Also, perhaps a few border security patrol...